South Africa Women vs England Women

Over-by-over report: Join our team of writers as England's summer opens at Taunton in a one-off Test against South Africa.

41st over: South Africa 127-5 (Kapp 40, Bosch 16) Sciver replaces Cross. just a single from this stingy bowler who has been completely unwilling to spread the joy between the teams. 43rd over: South Africa 135-5 (Kapp 44, Bosch 20) The fours keep coming. 47th over: South Africa 153-5 (Kapp 51, Bosch 30) Sciver’s bowled well today, which is probably why she’s been allowed two slips and a short mid on, and this is another decent over. 48th over: South Africa 153-5 (Kapp 51, Bosch 30) Ecclestone completes her maiden, probing with loop and length. 50th over: South Africa 153-5 (Kapp 51, Bosch 30) Pressure is building as Ecclestone wheels in, and Bosch just can’t get her away, forced to defend when you feel her desire to keep it moving seeping through the screen. 61st over: South Africa 192-6 (Kapp 83, De Klerk 6) Cross is chucking everything at this as England chase a seventh wicket before tea, but she overpitches an effort-ball so Kapp wallops it through the covers for four, then pulls over square leg for a single. 57th over: South Africa 185-6 (Kapp 77, De Klerk 5) Unsurprisingly, Wong finds herself thanked and sent off for a graze, Cross replacing her; she looks pretty happy with life nonetheless, as one who’d just made their Test debut and taken their first Test wicket on the first morning might. 63rd over: South Africa 198-6 (Kapp 86, De Klerk 9) It’s Davidson-Richards, who tries a bouncer that Kapp pulls. 62nd over: South Africa 195-6 (Kapp 85, De Klerk 7) This is a colossal session and England start it with their best bowler, but it’s an expensive one by Ecclestone’s august standards, three singles coming from it. 69th over: South Africa 210-7 (Kapp 96, Jafta 1) Misfield! And it takes Kapp to 95! 67th over: South Africa 205-7 (Kapp 91, Jafta 1) I’m not sure Kapp thinks much of Jafta’s batting because she’s trying to force things now, chasing a wide one as per De Klerk, but missing. 71st over: South Africa 225-7 (Kapp 108, Jafta 4) Davidson-Richards is bowling better now than she did this morning, cracking Jafta on the knee a second time.

England Women are set to face South Africa Women in the one-off Test match which will be taking place at Taunton on Monday, June 27.

On the other hand, South Africa Women will be playing their first Test match since November 2014 and will be eager to make an impression. She will be looking to add more wickets to her tally during the one-off Test. England Women are set to face South Africa Women in the one-off Test match which will be taking place at Taunton on Monday, June 27.

Debutants Issy Wong and Lauren Bell strike to leave South Africa reeling on first morning.

Lee reviewed but her dismissal was upheld on umpire's call on impact, meaning she departed for an eight-ball duck. Lara Goodall was adjudged not out by umpire Sue Redfern after Sciver struck her on the pad. Wong leapt high into the air with the broadest of grins and was mobbed by her team-mates as Wolvaardt trudged from the field.

The starting eleven for the Proteas Women's Test against England - the first Test in eight years - feature nine debutants, including captain Sune Luus.

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There's rarely a better sight in cricket than a fast bowler rattling the stumps of a rival batter. One such sight played out on Day 1 of The test match between ...

On the third ball of the over, Steyn decided to leave a delivery from Cross that was placed at off-stump, however the ball shaped in late to rattle the South African batter's stumps. One such sight played out on Day 1 of The test match between South African women's cricket team and England women's cricket team in Taunton on Monday. SA batter Andrie Steyn was at the crease when England pacer Kate Cross came in to bowl the fifth over of the day. His tally of 225 ODIs and 115 T20Is is also an England record.

Match Details: England Women vs South Africa Women, Only Test. Venue: The Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton. Date & Time: June 27^th-30^th, ...

In 7 Test matches, she has scored 343 runs at an average of 31.18 and bagged 9 wickets with the best figures of 3 for 41 in an innings. In 9 Test matches, she has scored 697 runs at an average of 49.78 which comprised 2 centuries and 3 half-centuries while with the ball picked up 7 wickets. Sune Luus is excited to captain South Africa for the first time in the red ball. South Africa Women on the other hand are playing a Test for the first time since 2014. England Women have played 5 Test matches in the span of 7 years which relates a lot. England Women will square off with South Africa Women in the Only Test which starts on Monday. It’s not that kind of format which is pretty famous in the Women’s cricket as they play barely.

As South Africa reached 284 all out at stumps of the women's Test against in Taunton on Monday, here are the plays of an intriguing day.

The first was against England in 1960. The current match is only the 13th South Africa has ever played. It’s also comfortably the highest.

Marizanne Kapp embarked on the innings South Africa desperately needed in the face of a new-look England attack which imposed itself on the Test in Taunton.

But when Cross removed Luus in the second over after lunch, with Sciver taking a sharp catch at third slip, South Africa were still struggling at 89 for 5. It took a spectacular catch from Tammy Beaumont, launching herself to her right at mid-off to pull the ball down after Kapp had tried to flay Bell over the infield, to end her stay. Another stand worth 49 for the ninth wicket with Tumi Sekhukhune took Kapp to 150, making her the first woman since Mithali Raj in 2002 to reach the milestone. She lured the dangerous opener Laura Wolvaardt into an attempted cover drive with one that nipped back off the seam and shot through the gate to clatter into middle and off. Lee reviewed but her dismissal was upheld on umpire's call on impact, meaning she departed for an eight-ball duck. But it was a resolute stand with Sinalo Jafta, only worth 25 but during which Jafta faced 39 deliveries for her 4 runs which saw Kapp to her ton.

Marizanne Kapp (150) batted South Africa Women into a strong position against England Women in the only Test in this series, on Day 1, at The Cooper ...

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Over-by-over report: Join our team of writers as England's summer continues at Taunton in a one-off Test against South Africa.

3rd over: England 4-0 (Lamb 2, Beaumont 1) Not sure if this is a deliberate ploy of if Kapp has yet to find her range, but she’s very wide outside the off stump for most of the over. 2nd over: England 3-0 (Lamb 2, Beaumont 0) De Klerk is from the Marcus Trescothick end. Enter Marizanne Kapp whose 150 is up there with the great innings produced by a Saffa. She hauled her team to 284. A stacked slip cordon and wouldn’t you know it, Marizanne Kapp with the new Dukes in her hand. She starts on the pads and Lamb tucks another off her legs. A two and a single - both towards the leg side - for Lamb who is in complete control out there. 6th over: England 12-0 (Lamb 4, Beaumont 7) Aha... So it’s a change of ends for Kapp. This is where Issy Wong and Lauren Bell began their spells so perhaps there’s a belief that it offers some extra oomph? 9th over: England 20-0 (Lamb 7, Beaumont 12) Class from Beaumont. Bottle that and save it for the gloomy days. She can’t back up that aggression with a probing line and is - once again - clipped through the on side. 15th over: England 54-0 (Lamb 27, Beaumont 24) Anneke Bosch into the attack. 17th over: England 60-0 (Lamb 33, Beaumont 24) That’s a messy set from Bosch. Too straight and Lamb tucks her for two. Too short and wide - maybe around the seventh or eighth stump line - and Lamb reaches and biffs her to the point boundary.

Tumi Sekhukhune comes back into the attack with Kapp still off the field. 9h ago. Emma Lamb, who is making her Test debut, hangs back and smashes De Klerk ...

23.5 - No Run! Sophie Ecclestone to Marizanne Kapp. 23.6 - No Run! Sophie Ecclestone to Marizanne Kapp. 63.6 - No Run! Sophie Ecclestone to Marizanne Kapp. 75.1 - No Run! Sophie Ecclestone to Marizanne Kapp. 75.2 - No Run! Sophie Ecclestone to Marizanne Kapp. 75.3 - No Run! Sophie Ecclestone to Marizanne Kapp. 75.4 - No Run! Sophie Ecclestone to Marizanne Kapp. 77.1 - No Run! Sophie Ecclestone to Marizanne Kapp. 77.2 - No Run! Sophie Ecclestone to Marizanne Kapp. 77.3 - No Run! Sophie Ecclestone to Marizanne Kapp. 79.1 - No Run! Sophie Ecclestone to Marizanne Kapp. 79.3 - No Run! Sophie Ecclestone to Marizanne Kapp.

Opening batter Emma Lamb was spared a nervy 15 minutes at the close of play - can she join Alice Davidson-Richards, Issy Wong and Lauren Bell in making her mark ...

Here's Sam Drury to take you through the lunch break and the afternoon session. That's what it was in the end. Heather Knight, having made a big unbeaten hundred in her last Test appearance, was drawn into a drive by Marizanne Kapp and edged the ball to slip... Instead, I’m at home with Covid, watching England cricket. Sally Burton: Should be at Chester Zoo with some friends. Post update

Nat Sciver and Alice Davidson-Richards both scored maiden Test hundreds as England grabbed the initiative on day two of the LV= Insurance Test at Taunton.

Her partnership with Sciver was also England's highest in Test cricket since 2013. England Women 1st Innings Fall of Wickets: 1-65 (Tammy Beaumont - 18.5 ov), 2-74 (Emma Lamb - 22.4 ov), 3-86 (Heather Knight - 30.1 ov), 4-120 (Sophia Dunkley - 40.3 ov), 5-121 (Amy Jones - 41.5 ov), 6-328 (Alice Davidson-Richards - 99.5 ov) England took the initiative in the only Test between England Women and South Africa Women on day two, thanks to centuries from Nat Sciver 119* and Alice Davidson-Richards 107. England Women vs South Africa Women, Only Test, South Africa Women tour of England England Women vs South Africa Women Test Day 2: England take initiative thanks to Sciver and Davidson-Richards Nat Sciver and Alice Davidson-Richards both scored maiden Test hundreds as England grabbed the initiative on day two of the LV= Insurance Test at Taunton.

Marizanne Kapp rallied South Africa with a superb century after England's debutants had helped shred the Proteas' top order on day one of the one-off ...

It's still cricket." Kapp began South Africa's fightback by sharing a 38-run stand for the fifth wicket with skipper Sune Luus, who continues to captain the Proteas in the absence of the injured Dane Van Niekerk (ankle), only for Luus (27) to then be caught low at slip by Sciver off Cross - the score 89-5 at that stage. But I think you just have to focus a bit longer. Senior player Cross picked up the first wicket of the day, castling Andrie Steyn (8) in the fifth over as the opener shouldered arms to a ball that held its line and went on to knock back off stump. Kapp (150 from 213 balls) hit her maiden Test ton, and the fourth by a South African woman in Tests, as the tourists recovered to 284 all out after being reduced to 45-4 by a new-look England attack. "Just how she manipulated the field, how she manoeuvred others, how she played us, how she managed to keep the strike, it just was like she's played Test cricket for years, which is just a testament to how good a player she is.

Lunch England 86 for 2 (Knight 8*, Sciver 8*, Bosch 2-18) trail South Africa 284 (Kapp 150, Cross 4-63) by 198 runs.

As it happened, Knight fell without adding to her score of 8 on the first ball after the break, caught short of her ground despite a desperate full-length dive after Sciver had turned a de Klerk delivery towards square leg and called for a single. After England had reduced South Africa to 45 for 4 on the opening morning, Kapp's brilliant 150 carried them to a respectable total of 284 by the close. That was before her gloriously timed punch in front of point to bring up her century before she was met with the warmest of hugs from Sciver.

England 328 for 6 (Sciver 119*, Davidson-Richards 107) lead South Africa 284 (Kapp 150, Cross 4-63) by 44 runs. Centuries for Test debutant Alice ...

That was before her gloriously timed punch in front of point to bring up her century before she was met with the warmest of hugs from Sciver. As it happened, Knight fell without adding to her score of 8 on the first ball after the break, caught short of her ground despite a desperate full-length dive after Sciver had turned a de Klerk delivery towards square leg and called for a single. Worth 207 runs, it was also their joint second-highest stand for any wicket and it took the side to 328 for 6, a lead of 44 runs.

IOL Sport's Stuart Hess gives us five plays of the day from the second day's action between the Proteas and England Women in Taunton.

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